for years government has only enforced the laws it wants to, now the Citizens obey only the laws THEY want to...
Posted on 04/14/2014 7:09:32 AM PDT by LucianOfSamasota
Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed what the Hartford Courant called “the toughest assault weapons legislation in the nation” last year. It required owners of semi-automatic firearms to register all firearms designated as “assault weapons” with the state government, along with any “high capacity” magazines they may own, by December 31, 2013.
The Malloy regime expected Connecticut residents to register somewhere between 372,000-400,000 firearms, and roughly 2 million firearm magazines that held more than 10 rounds before January 1.
What they got instead was defiance.
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
They can REPEAL the law.
How can elected officials be so out of touch with the electorate UNLESS massive voter fraud is ongoing?
They have the courts, police, and all the legitimacy that comes from being the state - the entity that is authorized to use force of violence to impose its will. All sort of unpopular laws are passed and enforced, this is just one more.
They are not out of touch. They just expected business as usual. You know, lie to get elected and then issue edicts from on high that the sheeple will just roll over and obey.
The recently enacted anti-gun laws of CT, NY, NJ and other states with Democrat majority legislators & Democrat governors have made felons out of their citizens who merely own now banned guns and magazines. The new laws do nothing to change how thugs, mugs & crazies commit violence against mostly innocent citizens.
Now, the people have decided these cronyistic and totalitarian laws are at the minimum meaningless, and at the worse enslavement.
The Rule of Law is Dead. It was killed by those who were sworn to uphold it, and have failed miserably, and I believe by design. Without the people believing in the rule of law, these administrative fools have only the threat of arrest, imprisonment, and prosecution under their unjust and unequally applied laws (see what their bodyguards are carrying for weapons!). This misapplication is usually in their favor or that of their "buddies", and end up lining their pockets as well...
In their push for more power and control, they will end up with neither, and will face the wrath of the people they seek to enslave...
for years government has only enforced the laws it wants to, now the Citizens obey only the laws THEY want to...
“What else can they do?”
They can wait.
People aren’t going to take banned items to the range so they will lose competency and be less able to pass their knowledge and interest on to the next generation.
They can cause extra trouble for those involved in “difficult” divorces, when an aggrieved spouse “rats them out” and wants their weapons confiscated because they feel endangered.
They may have an extra charge to levy if banned items are uncovered in pursuit of another violation.
Compliance with Tyranny is Treason.
Half of all US marriage ends in divorce. Women overwhelming are bitter and want to punish the man. This will be exploited, bet on it.
Plus the kids will be questioned relentlessly in school and by doctors.
All has been put in place to find who has what.
Yet another “Lesson From The Left”on how to create “Felons”with”The Stroke Of A Pen”????????????
These”law-Abiding Citizens of Connecticut”Are”Felons”(Not For Something They Have Done/For Something They HAVEN’T DONE?????????????????????????
This might be a part of the problem. I thought that states weren't allowed to keep this background check information. They do anyway and then they're surprised when citizens balk at their new ideas and promises about not misusing this information.
I don't care what any lying government tells me:
REGISTRATION DOES/WILL LEAD TO CONFISCATION.
Bingo. Stifling RKBA is enough for them. May not be enforced, but sales will plummet, usage/practice will end, skills will stagnate, public ostracization will run rampant. “Chilling effect” works.
1) They perceive themselves a a ruling class, not representatives of the electorate and
2) Minor bureaucrats have run amuck in our system just like in the former?? Soviet Union. Power corrupts.
***Yet another “Lesson From The Left”on how to create “Felons”with”The Stroke Of A Pen***
Felons are not required to register their guns.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynes_v._United_States
“The original Haynes decision continues to block state prosecutions of criminals who fail to register guns as required by various state law gun registration schemes.”
Why yes it is....
If you don't mind I am going to pilfer your statement, and use it judiciously.
And because it is so apropos, I will add this for your edification:
18 USC § 2382 - Misprision of treason
Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States and having knowledge of the commission of any treason against them, conceals and does not, as soon as may be, disclose and make known the same to the President or to some judge of the United States, or to the governor or to some judge or justice of a particular State, is guilty of misprision of treason and shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than seven years, or both.
That probably needs to be revised in the wake of the Bundy Ranch event in Nevada.
CT politicians, and perhaps more importantly, law enforcement, are certainly aware of what happened there. Given that a similar situation almost erupted in CT over that “get rid of your guns” letter a couple months back, there’s no way they’ll go for general/mass confiscation.
Instead they’ll largely ignore the law, will only enforce it on a onesie-twosie basis and even then hope that they can do so quickly enough to avoid the kind of drawn out, visuals-heavy standoff that would draw in and rally people in opposition to them.
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